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| Ankama | |
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| Type | SAS |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | May 15, 2001 |
| Headquarters | 75 boulevard d'Armentières, 59100 Roubaix Cedex 1 – France |
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Number of employees | 500 (2012) |
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| Website | ankama.com/en |
Ankama is a French entertainment company headquartered in Roubaix, France, focused on the design of massive multiplayer online role playing games (Dofus, Dofus Arena and Wakfu). The company is also active in publishing, animation and Web development. It was founded by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras. The company name comes from their own names : ANthony, KAmille, MAnu.
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Ankama Games create, produce and distribute their own video games:
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Ankama Éditions was set up in 2006 to publish comic books. The published works include titles related to Ankama Games' Dofus universe, but also unrelated titles such as Mutafukaz, which is very successful in France. Published works include:
Ankama Web is an interactive communication agency specialized in digital media, Web development and marketing buzz strategies. Ankama Web thus develops websites and Internet applications for professionals. Created in 2001, the agency was historically the first pole of activity of Ankama. Ankama Web shut down in 2012.
Ankama Presse, dedicated to the publication of magazines, was created on June 15, 2007, as a part of Ankama's cross-media strategy. It published mainly magazines about Ankama's video games. Its main product was Dofus Mag, focused on Ankama's flagship game, Dofus. The magazine's format was inspired by the Japanese concept of mook, indicating a hybrid product between magazine and book: while being distributed in newsstands, it was meant to be read and preserved as a book. Dofus Mag and other Ankama Presse titles were subsequently canceled.
Anthony Roux founded Ankama Animations in March 2007.
In 2008, Wakfu: The Animated Series (based on the video game, Wakfu) began airing. A second season aired in 2011, followed by a third in 2017 and a fourth in 2024. All four seasons consisted of 20-minute episodes, for a total of 78 episodes across all four seasons. The plot focuses on Yugo and his companions as he is looking for his biological family. The series is animated in Adobe Flash.
In 2013, Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim, based upon the Dofus game, aired. The series is set 200 years before the beginning of the MMORPG. It follows the main character Kerubim throughout various episodes of his life. The premise has Kerubim narrating several of his adventures to his adopted son Joris and their housekeeper Simone. The series consists of 52 10-minute episodes. A movie adaptation of the TV series is slated to release in late 2015.
In 2016, the film Dofus, livre 1 : Julith (Anthony Roux, Jean-Jacques Denis) was released in French theaters.
In October 2017, Ankama Animations colloaborated with Ellipsanime Productions, the Paris-based French animation oroduction subsidiary owned by Média-Participations via French publishing arm Dargaud, to establish a joint venture 2D animation production studio based in Roubaix, Hauts-de-France named MadLab Animations to handle the two animation studios' own production services alongside Média-Participations' fellow main Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio Ellipse Studio for the latter.
In 2018, the film Mutafukaz (Guillaume Renard, Shōjirō Nishimi) was released in French theaters. On December 25, 2019, it was released on Netflix in the US market.
In 2026 Ankama licensed the anime The Azure Legend: Welsh & Shedar worldwide to be released on their Krosmoz YouTube channel in early November 2026
Ankama developed internationally from the 2000s with two subsidiaries in the United States and Japan, and expanded with the arrival of Olivier Comte as general manager and the creation of many other studios.
Ankama Studio is a subsidiary of Ankama, created in 2006, which produces games for other companies, particularly in North America. The Ankama Japan studio, based in Tokyo, opened in early 2009. It mainly deals with animation.
Based in Montreal, the Ankama Canada studio was created on August 1, 2013, by two Ankama employees. The group, made up of ten employees, is the author of the video game Abraca. To enable (among other things) the expansion of the Wakfu game in China, the company opened a studio in Singapore in early 2014. These two studios, as well as another in São Paulo in Brazil, will close quickly, to allow Ankama to focus on Japan and Paris.
The Ankama Asia group, based in Manila in the Philippines, and aiming to develop its games in the Asian world, was acquired on March 22, 2016, by Keywords Studios. During this four-year contract, Keywords wishes to recruit about twenty more employees.
In 2018, Studio No Border was created, a Tokyo subsidiary responsible for the development of Japanese animations and video games. Thomas Romain, known for his Code Lyoko series, is the artistic director.
In 2019, Ankama reached the twelfth rank of the most profitable French companies.